Amanda Lear

"..One must make money, but one must also participate in the evolution of society, in its mutation. Society that is distressing, technological: people are frightened of machines..
You know, the first time I entered a studio was in London, ten years back. The Stones were recording. And I was not watching The Stones, but the machines: all the machines that were lit up and playing back the phased vocals. That was my first contact with science-fiction. It was a year before the death of Brian Jones. He was totally fascinated by machines. He was in love with them, he took them to pieces. That was when we were coming out of a hippy, pre-raphaelite period, when flowers were deemed beautiful and machines demonic..." Interview with Yves Adrien, circa-1979.

For more on Amanda Lear, read Star Communion Report 1.